It's why William Morris's "News from Nowhere" is such an appealing vision of how things could be - it holds on to the good things of the past, while getting rid of the things that ruined life for so many. It's been called the only fictional utopia you can imagine wanting to live in.   

Of course there are a lot of people who wouldn't like it, and who even get angry at the very notion, as an affront to their notion of "progress".